alaCarte's website was really getting a little outdated and rusty, and instead of updating all the broken things, I
decided to try nikola. It's yet another static site generator written in python, but it currently seems to have more
momentum than pelican.

This was done in preparation of the upcoming 0.4 release of alaCarte. In the last few years, quite a few number of
changes have built up and we want to release them as soon as the switch to the upstream dir_monitor library is
completed. See the changelog for a preview of what you can expect in alaCarte 0.4.

After a long time since the last release, the 0.3.0 release has seen a lot of work.

Highlights of the new version:

Near complete support for MapCSS styling attributes

Rendering of 4x4 tiles ("meta tiles") at the same time to gain speed (and visual quality)

Reduced memory consumption thanks to using a STR-Tree for rectangle queries

Of course there were many small fixes and improvements as well. In total 229 files where modified, 4521 lines of code where added and 3996 lines deleted.

This release would not have been possible without our many new contributers.
Especially thanks to Dmitry "AMDmi3" Marakasov for his work on extending the MapCSS support and Mixaill for the MinGW support.

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alaCarte is a modern, easy-to-use tile renderer for OpenStreetMap data. It supports multiple MapCSS stylesheets at
once which can be updated at runtime, and it does neither need an external web server or an external database.